McGregor has always been proud of his Irish heritage and carries the tricolour into the octagon for each of his fights, and he recently said at a press conference for Saturday's showdown: "My family, my bloodline, the McGregor clan. We stood, we fought.

"We fought the English empire, so much so that our name was banished for 100 years by King James."

However, Nurmagomedov continues to prey onto the fact that McGregor primarily speaks in English.

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"I don't understand his language. He talks about fighting the English empire but if you fight the English empire then why do you speak the English language?" he said to ESPN.

"Ireland have their own language. But he speaks in English and I don't understand his English. I know my English is not very good and my English is a little bit crazy but everybody understands my English.

"At the press conference, I understood 50 or 60% of what he was talking about but mostly no.

"To talk about my language; I know Russian, English and Arabic. I can speak a lot of languages.

"He speaks only one language and he talks about 'Oh, we fight with the English empire!' but what happened with your language?

"If you love your country, you have to speak your language. Do you just want to show up and say you're Irish and take the flag with you but you don't speak your language? You speak English."